Ferrari 488 Pista
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Price history
The verdict
Recorded sales
Every row, with its price and note (3) ↓
Score breakdown
The working behind each factor: baseline and drivers ↓
What it costs to own · about 2,857 km a year
Specification
What moves the price on this model
Condition, history, originality, ownership, delivery and modification multipliers apply to every car in the library. They are applied automatically when an advertisement is analysed, and the schedule is set out once, on the analyser page.
Projected value in five years
The case for and against
The most focused 488, with the engine derived from the Challenge racing cars, 90kg lighter and 38kW stronger than the GTB. Focused Ferrari variants have historically held better than their series-production siblings: the 430 Scuderia clears 76 per cent internationally against the F430's 60.
The 488 GTB clears only 44 per cent internationally and just two standard coupes have sold anywhere in that record. Turbocharging costs this generation the naturally aspirated argument that carries the 458 Speciale, and the market has already priced that distinction. The single Australian result dates from March 2023 and there is no separate international record for the Pista itself.
Known faults and risks
Similar cars, and what they cost to run
Read the rest of the evidence notes (7 more)
The Pista is 90kg lighter and 38kW stronger than the 488 GTB, with the racing-derived engine from the Challenge cars. Pricing it off the GTB would understate it badly.
The 488 GTB clears just 44 per cent internationally across sixteen lots, among the weakest measured in this library, and only TWO standard coupes have sold anywhere in that record, both at US$275,000 a year apart. The 812 GTS at 44 per cent and the Huracan at 46 sit in the same band. Modern turbocharged exotica clears badly, and the Pista sits inside that pattern rather than outside it. THE COUNTER-ARGUMENT is that the Pista is a limited focused car where the GTB is a series production one, and focused variants have held better across this library: the 430 Scuderia clears 76 per cent against the F430's 60. Whether that gap repeats for the Pista is not knowable from anything measured here.
Against an Australian launch price near $645,000, with an estimated 55 delivered locally.
The smallest revision in the Ferrari family, made in the same pass as the larger ones. The domestic asks on this record, $869,900 at a dealer and $980,000 private, already sat close to the carried figure, and recent American sales convert to roughly $800,000 to $860,000. Moved to the middle of that band.
A second-owner car showing 5,752 kilometres made $805,500 at Hamilton in Queensland on 29 March 2023, on a full Ferrari Sydney service history. De-adjusted to the 20,000 kilometres this record expects, that implies $781,000 against a carried $830,000.
The sale is three and a half years old. The two live asking prices on the record - $869,900 for a 1,215-kilometre car and $980,000 for an 8,800-kilometre one - are 5 and 18 per cent above the carried figure. Asks are not sales and this library never treats them as such, but a single 2023 transaction and two 2026 asks bracket $830,000 rather than contradict it.
A second Australian sale. Until then this is one result, and the evidence grade says so.
The report prices the car in the advertisement.
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